Tag: world history

Canada, An Early History Edited by: Robert Guisepi 2002 Canada to 1763 Prehistory to early European contact Pre-contact aboriginal history The first humans to make their homes in North America migrated from Asia. It is generally thought that this migration took place over a now-submerged land bridg...

Toward The Twenty-First CenturyAuthor: VariousDate: 1992 Edited By: R. A. GuisepiThe Gulf WarIntroductionTime present and time pastAre both present in time future ...Time past and time futureWhat might have been and what has beenPoint to one end, which is always time present.T.S. Eliot, "Burnt Norto...

Kingdom Of Italy EstablishedAuthor: Garibaldi, Giuseppe; Probyn, John WebbBy Giuseppe Garibaldi1860After the suppression of the Italian Revolution, by Austria, in 1849, andthe restoration of Austrian power in Italy, Charles Albert, King of Sardinia,who had headed the movement for Italian independenc...

World War One, Nations Involved Austria-Hungary Declared war on Serbia .........July 28, 1914Declared war on Russia ........Aug 6, 1914Declared war on Belgium ......Aug 28, 1914Declared war on Portugal ......March 15, 1916BelgiumRefused German ultimatum demanding permission for German troops to cro...

LEWIS AND CLARK EXPEDITION Ambrose, S.E. Undaunted Courage (Simon & Schuster, 1996). United States citizens knew little about western North America when the Lewis and Clark Expedition set out in 1804. Twelve years earlier Captain Robert Gray, an American navigator, had sailed up the mouth of the...

Ancient Egypt, An Overview The origins of ancient Egyptian civilization, which many regard as one of the fountainheads of Western culture, cannot be established with certainty. Archaeological evidence suggests that early dwellers in the Nile Valley were influenced by cultures of the Near East, but t...

England Under Harefoot, Hardicanute, And Edward The Confessor Author: Dickens, Charles Chapter VI. England Under Harold Harefoot, Hardicanute, And Edward The Confessor. Canute left three sons, by name Sweyn, Harold, and Hardicanute; but his queen, Emma, once the Flower of Normandy, was the mother ...

John Buford(1826-1863) Within six months of his having played a key role in the opening of the battle of Gettysburg, cavalryman John Buford was dead of typhoid fever. The Kentucky-born soldier had moved to Illinois before being appointed to West Point. Graduating in 1848 he was posted to the dragoo...

History Of The Conquest Of Mexico, The Aztecs (part three) Book: Book I: Introduction. Preliminary View Of The Aztec Civilization. Author: Prescott, William H. Chapter III: Mexican Mythology, Part I. The Sacerdotal Order. - Th0e Temples. - Human Sacrifices. The civil polity of the Aztecs is so clos...

Ancient Rome Tacitus: Germania Gary Edward Forsythe: Assistant Professor of Classical Languages and Literatures, University of Chicago. Author of The Historian L. Calpurnius Piso Frugi and the Roman Annalistic Tradition. Robert A. Guisepi: Author of Ancient Voices (Re-printed by permission) "Remem...

A History of Ancient Greece Greece And The Hellenistic World Author: Robert Guisepi Date: 1998 Greek Creativity In Culture The genius of Greek civilization lay more obviously in various facets ofculture than in politics. It was Greek culture that determined the mostlasting contributions of this civi...

World War One, WOODROW WILSON The president who led the nation through the hard years of World War I was Woodrow Wilson. He was probably the only president who was a brilliant student and teacher as well as a statesman. He had been a college professor, president of Princeton University, and the auth...